Quotes About Mother-in-law

I feel emotionally conflicted. It's like when your mother in-law drives off a cliff in your new Porsche.

Buy it for the lady who's about to become your mother-in-law, the one who's already trying to control your life and the lives of the three children she's already pressuring you to have. Give her the book one day out of nowhere, just as a nice surprise, and when she hugs you, calmly whisper: "Don't fuck with me, Ellen. Don't even think about it. Ever." Then smile at her like everything is wonderful. Because from now on, it will be.

she was trying to be the perfect mother-in-law, but really, when you didn't let a woman help, it was a way of keeping her at a distance, of letting her know that she wasn't family, of saying I don't like you enough to let you into my kitchen.

First there was Desdemona the week before, giving advice to her daughter-in-law. "Why you want more children, Tessie?" she had asked with studied nonchalance. Bending to look in the oven, hiding the alarm on her face (an alarm that would go unexplained for another sixteen years), Desdemona waved the idea away. "More children, more trouble . . .

everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. George

Ideally I'd like her to get to know the prince a bit before he kisses her," said the queen. "Make sure he's a nice boy and understands how to treat his mother-in-law. But that's still a very good change, my dear!" She beamed at the youngest fairy god-mouse, who looked embarrassed by all the attention.

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

mother-in-law still demanded obedience and reverence while never behaving in a manner that would merit either. This alien presence, imposed upon a person's life by sheerest chance, made ever-increasing demands in return for the vain promise of domestic harmony. Resistance was futile, for opposition inevitably led to

The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.

Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.

Even-money that my liver lasts through my wife's metamorphosis to my mother-in-law.

Ella te amenazó, Elena. No hizo falta que dijera nada más. Ella sabía muy bien lo que Rafael haría para protegerla. —Hay muchas mujeres que tienen problemas con sus suegras. La mirada que le dirigió Rafael no tuvo precio. —Mi madre es una arcángel demente. Elena estuvo a punto de echarse a reír…